Vocab Flashcards
(254 cards)
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Indigenous/Autochthonous
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Native
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Forthcoming
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Upcoming, coming (come out book,film record)
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Down-to-earth (in the context of this text)
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Matter of fact, not abstract, simple, realistic
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Accounts (give an account)
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Experiences, perspectives, stories (describing sth.)
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Reluctant
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Hesitant, unwilling, reluctance
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Country bumpkin
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A person from countryside considered stupid
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Resentment
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Hatred, grudge, bitterness, indignation (indignant), resentful (resent)
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Defiant
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Resistant, uncooperative, defiance, defy, defying, defied,
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Pruning
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Trim
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Presume
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Assume, suppose, presumption, presumably
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Moan
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Complain, whine, grummble
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Influx
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Inflow, arrival of a large number of people
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(One) can only do so much
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You’ve done everything you can to
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Legislate
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Make/enact laws legislation
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To account for sth.
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- Represent/make
2explains why sth. is the case
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Playing up
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Misbehave
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Fell out
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Have an argument
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Buy up
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Buy everything that is available
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Sell up
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Sell everything that you have
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Die out
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Go extinct
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Fragrance
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A pleasant sweet smell
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Sentient being
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One who perceives and responds to sensations of whatever kind
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Congenitally anosmic
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A condition in which people are born without a sense of smell
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Articles
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Objects, items
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Fumes
An amount of gas or vapour that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale
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Delicious smell
Having very pleasant taste or smell
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Alas
Used to describe/ express grief pity or concern
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Challenged (visually, physically, mentally, olfactorily)
Politically correct way to say hendicap
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Attend
Don’t compare
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Hob burner
The flat top part of a cooking stove
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Aurally
With regard to sound or ear (alert with sound)
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Bouts
A brief period of illness
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Best before dates
Expiration dates
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Assiduously
With great care
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Mugful
The quantity that can be held in a mug
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Mug
Big ceramic
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Cup
Small
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Olfaction
Sense of smell
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Enormous
Very large
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Consistency
Consistent behaviour (steadiness, stability)
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Relied
Depend
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Cope
Manage
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Distinguish
Recognise
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Nuance
A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, sound, fine distiction
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Body odour
The unpleasant smell of persons unwashed body
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Subliminal information
Existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness
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Backdrop
Serve as a background to? The view behind sth ? The general situation in which particular events happen
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Trigger
Activate
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Nasal polyps
Soft growths on the lining of the nose or the spaces inside the nose
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Rectify
Put right, correct
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Enquire
Ask, investigate
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Integral
Essential, fundamental, basic
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Have to soldier on
To continue to do sth even though it is difficult
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Draw comfort
The feeling of solace and reassurance that one may get from given someone
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Reminisced
Remember (with pleasure)
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Wistfully
With a feeling of vague or regretful longing
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Intrigued
Interest, fascinate
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Take you back (in time)
Go back into the past
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Immunotype
The form of a compound that has separate immunological characteristics
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Offspring
Child
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Potable
Drinkable
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Savoury
Morally wholesome or acceptable
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Unsavoury character
Dishonest, don’t want him around you
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Sweet and savoury food
Slatka slana
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You can rules of etiquette (in a good sense)
Follow abide by observe
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You can rules of etiquette (in a bad sense)
Break breach
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Make a gaf
Mistake or breach of rules of etiquette
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Make a faux pas
Make a mistake in etiquette
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Keeps time
To maintain a set rhythm,beat,tempo
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Last resort
A final course of action, used only when all else has failed
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First resort
What you will do first before you try other things
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Stifling humidity
Extremely hot, with a lack of fresh air
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Social conduct
All the interpersonal behaviours that someone exhibits in the social context
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Transcendent
Beyond or above the range of normal human experience
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Stroking
Move ones hand with gentle pressure over a surface repeatedly
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Bobbing up and down
To move up and down quickly and gently
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In time to/with sth
if you do something in time to a piece of music, you do it using the same rhythm and speed as the music
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No avail
Without any success or effect
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Resort to
To do sth that you dobro want to because you cant find any other way
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Fruitless
Actions, events or efforts that do not achieve anything at all
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Seething
Filled with or characterised by intense but unexpressed anger
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Righteous indignation
Anger that is motivated by a perception of injustice
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Laissez- faire attitude
The idea that people should be free to choose how to do things, without too much control from someone in authority
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(Set of) drawback(s)
Flaw, disadvantage
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Flick through
Look quickly through a book, magazine
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Mischief
Naughtiness
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Indulge
Allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of
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Leisure
Free time
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Converse
Engage in conversation
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Merely grotesque extension
Just strange and unpleasant addition
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The downside of
The negative aspect of sth otherwise seen as good/desirable
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Admittedly
I have to admit
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Far too stifling
Rigid, suffocating, strict rules
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Oblivious
Unaware
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Stem from
Caused by
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Cocooned
Envelop in a protective or comforting way
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Unabashed
Shameless
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Sth makes you blood boil
It makes you very angry
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Have your hand full
Be so busy that you don’t have time to do anything else
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Fed up to the back teeth
Very fed up
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Up to ones neck in sth
Deeply involved in or affected by sth
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Be up to your eyes/ears in sth
To be very busy doing sth
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Break ones neck
To make a great effort
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Be under someone’s feet
Keep getting in someones way when they are trying to do sth
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Be stuck in a rut
Have a routine
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Low turnout
(How many people showed up) not many people showed up
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Heavy downpour/ deluge
A heavy fall of rain
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Sharp upturn in
Increase/ rise in
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On low income
Low earnings/ low salary
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Serious outbreak of
A sudden occurrence of sth unwelcome such as war and disease
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Insight
The capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something
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Outcome
The way a thing turns out, result
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Setback
A reversal or problem in progress
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Output
The amount of sth produced by a person, machine or industry
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Upbringing
The treatment received by a child from its parens ; raising
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Breakdown
Failure, collapse
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Upset
Severe loss
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Give someone a cold shoulder
Intentionally ignore someone or treat them in an unfriendly way way
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Point a finger at someone
Accuse someone of being responsible for sth bad
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Turn a blind eye to sth
Pretend not to notice
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Keep an eye out/on
Keep under careful observation/ with particular attention
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Make eyes at someone
Look at someone with sexual inerest
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Do sth with your eyes open
Knowing about all the problem that could emerge
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Eyeing you up
Look closely at sth that you were interested in
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Keep your ear to the ground
Pay attention to everything that is happening around you and to what people are saying
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Turn a deaf ear
Ignore someone when they complain or ask for sth
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Play it by ear
Decide how to deal with situation as it develops rather than acting according to plans
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Look down his nose at
Thin or treat someone/sth as unimportant or not worthy respect
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Follow ones nose
Trust to one’s instincts
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To cut off your nose to spite your face
They do sth that they think will hurt someone, without realising that it will hurt them as well
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Bite your lip
Prevent yourself from showing your reaction to sth by speaking or laughing
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Keep a stiff upper lip
To not show your feelings when you’re upset
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Pay lip service to
To publicly support or approve of sth while actually taking no action to produce it
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Mouthing apologies
Say something in a way that is not sincere
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Live from hand to mouth
Have hardly enough food or money to live on
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Get out of hand
Become difficult to control
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At the hand of
Done or caused by
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Sit on your hands
Do nothing about a problem
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Wash your hands of sth
Intentionally stop being involved or connected with someone/something
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Keeping me at arm length metaphorically
Keep someone at distance
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Keeping me at arm length literally
Arm length; close
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Talk about someone behind their back
Without someones knowledge
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Live off the backs of someone
Use money and resources of another group of people to survive and give nothing in return
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Pull ones leg
Deceive someone playfully
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Not have a leg to stand on
To be in a situation in which you cannot prove something
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On its last legs
In such a bad condition that it will soon be unable to work
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Put your foot down
Use your authority to stop sth happening
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Have your feet on the ground
Sensible and practical attitude
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Set foot in
To go to a place
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Drag your feet
Do sth slowly or not start it because you dont want to do it
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Drift off
Gradually start falling asleep
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Wandering around
Aimlessly walking around
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Looking a wreck
Emotional wreck, looking terrible
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Contemporary
Current
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Letting down their defences
Being vulnerable
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Short-term
Happening, existing or continuing for only a little time
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Downsizing
Make (a company or organisation) smaller by eliminating staff
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Redundancy
The state of being no longer needed or useful
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Fairly invincible front
Rather untouchable facade
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Siege
Opsada
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Ambush
Zaseda
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Prevail
Prove more powerful or superior
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To keep me at bay
Keep at distance
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To air
To say
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Took pains/ take pain to do sth
Put a lot of effort to do sth
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Painstaking
Done with great care
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Stumble
Come across/found accidentally
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Diminish
Make it smaller
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Job for life
Stable job
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Reticent
Reticence, closed, reserved, not showing emotion
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Reluctance to break away
Hesitation, unwillingness
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Cuddly
Gentle
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Frailty
Vulnerability
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Agility
Opposite of frailty
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Common sight
something that is seen often or usually in a particular plac
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Erode/eroding
Gradually destroy
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Kinship
Relationships / familiar
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Prosperity
Financial success
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Jos neke reci
Relate to, acts of, calling on
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Put someone down
Make them feel bad
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Turn your back on someone
Betray them
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Put a strain on something
Cause problems
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Take to someone
Begin to like that person
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Get on ones nerves
Irritate someone
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Have it in for someone
Dislike them
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Took such a
Strong dislike to
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Look down on someone
Think of them as less important
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Back someone up
Support
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Keep himself to himself
Private person , spend lot of time alone
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Get out of hand
Become difficult to control
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Pressed for time
You don’t have enough time or money
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Peak viewing time
The time of the day when most people are watching tv
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Set aside
Save or keep sth typically money or time
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Jos neke reci
Space available, way of thinking, hate to say it, make great efforts, given every opportunity
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Asset
Valuable thing we have
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Effective
Takes time but at the end it works
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Affective? Efficiently?
In a way that achieves maximum productivity with minimum wasted time
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Meet the deadline/expetations
Complete sth at or before the time when it must be done
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Snowed under
Overwhelm, overpower
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Takes the back seat
For situations and objects; things that need to take second place
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Take the back seat
To people; to choose not to be in a position of responsibility
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Slomping/sloping
Razvaliciti se
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A race against time
When you have to rush to do sth before the deadline
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Behind the times
Old-fashioned, out of date
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A whale of a time
Had a very good time
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Bide ones time
Remain in a place in readiness or expectation of sth
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Ahead of her time
Have ideas that are too advanced for the society
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Having a hell of a time/ having a devil of a time
Having a very digital experience
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In the nick of time
At the last moment, before its too late
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Caught me at the bad time
Attempt to see or speak to somebody at an inconvenient time
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Too much time on his hands
Too much free time
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Due time
It will happen when the time is right so be patient
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Matter of time
It will definitely happen sooner or later
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Only time will tell
Passing of time will show results (good or bad)
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Have stood the test of time/ to stand the test of time/ withstand the test of time
Last for a long time and continue to be successful
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Right time
It is the best time to do sth
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Two-timing
Deceive, betray, cheat someone
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Big time
The highest or profitable level
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Time flies
Time passes very quickly
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Time and tide wait for no man
If you don’t make use of favorable opportunity you may never get the same chance again
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There’s no time like the present
Sth should be done niw rather than later
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Extraterrestrial
From outside the earth
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Inference
Deduction
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By inference
By implication
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Dislodge
Knock or force out of position
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Outstrip
Exceeds, overtakes, tops
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Odd intelligent alien
Occasional, random
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British english two a penny ten a penny American english dime dozen
Something that is very common and therefore not as remarkable or valuable
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The matrix of life
The set of conditions that provides a system in which something grows or develops
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Posed
Asked, put
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Steady
Continues, regular
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Prime
Excellent, top quality, perfect
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Put forward
Offer, present, suggest, propose
One put forward an argument or case against/for sth
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Reastrain
Control, caution, restriction
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Blow a fuse
Lose ones temper
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Get worked up
Get very angry excited or upset about sth
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Heated argument
One where the people involved are angry
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Irate customer
Extremely angry due to some displeasure; furious fuming
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Cross with you/ to be cross
Be angry or annoyed/ not extreme like irate or furious
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Seething with anger
Experience intense anger, but not show it ; anger boiling inside you
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Go berserk
To be beside yourself with anger ‘go crazy’ ‘go wild’
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Blow his top
Lose ones temper
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Flew into rage
Suddenly become extremely angry
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Sudden outburst of temper
Sudden violent expression of anger
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Let off steam
Get rid of pent up energy or strong emotion
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Throw a tantrum
Sudden period of uncontrolled anger like a young child
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To scream blue murder
To scream, complain, yell in a loud or angry manner
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Long-held view
An opinion, belief, idea, way of thinking
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Enhance
Increase
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Enchant
Captivating
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Endure
Suffer through something difficult
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Determining factor
A circumstance fact or influence that contributes to a result
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Consider
Think carefully about sth, typically before making a decision
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Considerably
By a notably large amount; to a notably large extent; greatly
